The announcement – in Ofsted’s 2013 annual report – follows claims from the watchdog that the worst schools are characterised by having “litter in the playground and disorder in the corridors”.

Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector, said: “The walls are bare, the classrooms untidy and it’s hard to see the carpets for gum. There is a uniform policy but pupils get away with flouting it.”

He added: “The unlucky child has to endure low-level disruption in most of his lessons. His school hasn’t created the calm and respectful culture essential for learning.

“Lessons are undermined by background chatter, inattention and horseplay. The unlucky child’s school has succumbed to indifference, incivility and insolence.”

According to figures, eight per cent of state schools in England currently have poor standards of behaviour. In all, some 700,000 pupils attend these schools.

Ofsted said some of these schools would be subjected to no-notice inspections.

Other primaries or secondaries with previously good behaviour standards will also be picked out if parents or teachers make serious complaints about a breakdown of discipline standards, it emerged.

Currently, most schools are given warning of pending inspections the afternoon before it takes place.

Publishing the annual report, Sir Michael said: "For all the reasons I’ve already mentioned, inspectors will focus more on culture and behaviour in the coming year.

“In this context, I am announcing that, from January, inspectors will make no-notice visits to schools where we have identified behaviour as a particular concern.”

The Department for Education insisted the Government was already cracking down on bad behaviour by allowing teachers to impose detentions without the previous 24-hour notice to parents. Heads also have the final say on exclusions without decisions being overturned by third-party appeal panels.

A spokesman said: "Ofsted is right to place a high premium on good behaviour. Bad classroom behaviour is hugely disruptive to children's education. It means teachers can't teach and pupils can't learn.

"A robust behaviour policy, properly enforced, is the bedrock of all outstanding schools' success. That is why we have strengthened teachers' powers to put them back in charge of their classrooms and their schools.”